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In response to firefighter labor shortages during World War II, the Rainbow Conservation Camp was established as the first permanent fire camp, in 1946. It was modeled after New Deal Civilian Conservation Corps camps. The program grew to 16 camps throughout California in the 40s and 50s, including the first youth camps.
For Civilian Conservation Corps projects in the U.S. state of Washington. Pages in category "Civilian Conservation Corps in Washington (state)" The following 41 pages are in this category, out of 41 total.
Camp Albuquerque; Camp Angel; Camp Bullis; Camp Grant (Illinois) Camp Renaissance; Camp Rhododendron; Camp San Luis Obispo; Camp Sharpe; Camp Tulelake; Camp William James; Civilian Conservation Corp Camp F-10; Civilian Conservation Corps camps; Civilian Conservation Corps Powder Magazine
The She-She-She Camps were camps for unemployed women that were organized by Eleanor Roosevelt (ER) in the United States as a counterpart to the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) programs designed for unemployed men. ER found that the men-only focus of the CCC program left out young women who were willing to work in conservation and forestry ...
Donated soil has been sent to conservation projects where it's been used for reforestation, ecosystem restoration and wildfire restoration. How human composting originated The process was first ...
The state is spending $3 million on a conservation easement that will protect 135 acres along the Rainbow River from development.
The California Conservation Corps, CCC, is a department of the government of California, falling under the state cabinet-level California Resources Agency.The CCC is a voluntary work development program specifically for men and women between the ages of 18 and 25 (up to 29 for veterans [1]), offering work in environmental conservation, fire protection, land maintenance, and emergency response ...
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...